>
> I had problems getting into the Microchip Site in the
> middle of the week. It would appear that they
> now have a redesigned site and I am having a
> great deal of difficulty navigating it. Is it
> just me ?
>
> I am trying to find information on the
> rf12C509 and apart from a press release I am
> drawing a blank.Can anyone give me a direct link to
> a datasheet no matter how brief.
>

> Yes, it has been a pain but it is working now. Turn of Java at the
> bottom of the page. Much better.
> >From the front page I found this:
> http://www.microchip.com/1010/pline/rfpic/index.htm
>
>
> Chris Carr wrote:
> >
> > I had problems getting into the Microchip Site in the
> > middle of the week. It would appear that they
> > now have a redesigned site and I am having a
> > great deal of difficulty navigating it. Is it
> > just me ?
> >
> > I am trying to find information on the
> > rf12C509 and apart from a press release I am
> > drawing a blank.Can anyone give me a direct link to
> > a datasheet no matter how brief.
> >
>

> I had problems getting into the Microchip Site in the
> middle of the week. It would appear that they
> now have a redesigned site and I am having a
> great deal of difficulty navigating it. Is it
> just me ?
>
> I am trying to find information on the
> rf12C509 and apart from a press release I am
> drawing a blank.Can anyone give me a direct link to
> a datasheet no matter how brief.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris Carr
>
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>
>         Not just having problems navigating, it crashes my browser.  Real pain!
>
> Harold
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:30:03 +0100 Chris Carr <nyedKILLspamBTINTERNET.COM>
> writes:
> > I had problems getting into the Microchip Site in the
> > middle of the week. It would appear that they
> > now have a redesigned site and I am having a
> > great deal of difficulty navigating it. Is it
> > just me ?
> >
> > I am trying to find information on the
> > rf12C509 and apart from a press release I am
> > drawing a blank.Can anyone give me a direct link to
> > a datasheet no matter how brief.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Chris Carr
> >
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> > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]:
> > ->Ads
> >
> >
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>
>         I use lynx and, of course, select the text version.  It
> looks like the javascript monster has gobbled up another once
> useful web site.
>
>         For the life of me, I will never understand how
> javascript-based navigation is any improvement over straight
> navigation by html which needs no scripting to function.
>
>         For some of us, Netscape and Internet Explorer are not
> valid options and probably won't be for a while yet.
>
>         I don't visit this site often, but I am interested in
> trends and the trend is to over design everything with javascript
> and call it progress.
>
>         Javascript is a marketing-driven solution to a problem
> that never existed.  It is this way of thinking that is partly to
> blame for some of the .com woes.  Make it complex enough and
> folks will just quietly go away and do something else.
>
>         Rather than just whining about it, I want to experiment
> with trying to add some kind of javascript support to at least
> make the links work, but it would be a lot nicer to not have to
> mess with this monster at all.:-(  So my apologies if I am still
> whining.
>
>         Text is only the knowledge engine that played a major
> role in creating civilized society all over the world over the
> last few thousand years so it is obviously time to throw it out
> and replace it with as complex a cluge as humanly possible.
>
>         I want to see technology that works for the largest
> community possible.  As a computer user who also happens to be
> blind, I can tell you that computers have come closer to leveling
> the playing field over the last twenty or so years than many of
> you can imagine.  I sit here and read messages from this list by
> listening to a rather strange, but not unpleasant voice reading the
> text.  The special hardware to convert ASCII in to speech can be
> rather inexpensive these days and, on some systems, it is an
> application that does the conversion in software and uses the
> sound card so there is no dedicated hardware at all.
>
>         My point to all this griping and rambling is that if
> there is a simple and text-based method of communicating, a lot
> of logistical problems simply go away.  The stuff just works for
> all concerned.
>
>         The problem is not that today's web browsers are
> GUI-based.  It is that developers for whatever reason think that
> legacy methods for munching information are not needed any more.
>
>         Broadcast television is required to give a
> monochrome-compatible picture and monophonic sound in most
> places.  FM radio all over the world still works with monaural
> receivers.  Fax machines and modems negotiate down to the
> protocol that both understand if the initial connection method
> fails, so why must information technology be exempt from this
> principle?  I think there are many reasons, all bad ones.  We
> don't really know what life would be like with this kind of a
> model, but I can tell you that the rest of you would have better
> technology that wouldn't crash nearly as often and people like me
> would not be sending messages like this but would simply be
> building stuff or learning things that are much harder to do
> right now because the available technology is more like
> ill-fitting shoes than sleek efficient tools.
>
>         In my job as Network/Software Specialist in our Network
> Operations group at Oklahoma State University, I am constantly
> aware of the security implications of various communications
> technologies.  The scripting browsers introduce lots of avenues
> for mischief if the site visited happens to have been hacked or
> run by people who are out to make trouble.
>
>         Email and web engines that allow unknown entities to run
> stuff on our computers are a recipe for disaster and it's already
> happening.  There's another good reason to have simple and
> well-known methods of communication.  I am not stuck in the past,
> but only want technology that works safely on the network and
> works for me.
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group
> Josh Koffman writes:
> >It crashed my browser so badly I had to reboot in order to get it to
> >work again. And that was following the links on the supposed text site.

> > I just wanted to say I totally agree with you. Microchip, if you're
> > listening, stop bringing in the fancy stuff. Honestly, I don't
> think it
> > really impresses anyone, especially if it crashes a potential
> client's
> > browser.
>
> I agree. The web used to be divided in two sections: no-frills sites
> full of
> usefull content, and fancy sites without anything worth looking
> (which was
> fortunate, because you would not be able to find anything if it were
> there).
> But a gang of web stylists seems to have taken over Microchip (who's
> site
> used to be definitely in the first group), so I think I'd better rip
> the
> site and store all its usefull content somewhere safe, because after
> the
> next update I will be totally unable to find MPLAB or the PIC
> datahseets
> anymore.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>
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